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INWARD TELEGRAM

TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES

er (0.T.P.)

IMMEDIATE

COPY FOR REGI

AXI

FROM HONG KONG (Sir A. Grantham)

D. 17th January, 1948. R. 17th

No. 68 Secret.

料

1#

13.35 hrs.

DISTRY

Addressed British Ambassador Banking No, 23. Repeated to S. of Sc

27

Please pass to Foreign Office.

My immediately preceding en clair telegram.

Following is last sentence of Hall's

telegram.

Begina,

Feebleness of police action suggests that

coup d'etat may be possible.

End 8.